Close Look: Bloomberg’s Ground Zero

Bloomberg on “The Daily Show” with Jon Stewart, talking about the downtown Islamic community center (and about an important tax issue involving bagels).

Both of them have been quite sensible on this issue, and, among politicians, Bloomberg has been particularly admirable. He ascribed the stirred-up hysteria to the election calendar. Interestingly, he said he’d likely have been even more outspoken if he was running for office, because it impresses voters when you seem to believe in something. So why have the Democrats not been out front on this one?

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